OKEA ASA — Investor Presentation 2020

Apr 28, 2020

Presentation of first quarter 2020 OKEA ASA

28 April 2020

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Highlights 1st quarter 2020

Operations

•No serious incidents at operated operations

• •Production 19 099 boepd
• •High availability at Draugen and Gjøa

Financial

• •Revenues from oil and gas of NOK 504 million
• •EBITDA of NOK 312 million
• •Non-cash one off effects
• NOK 634 million in impairments
• NOK 518 million unrealised FX-losses on USD bonds

Impacts from Covid -19

• •Measures implemented reducing 2020 spending of NOK 270 million, further NOK 160 million pending
• •Reducing operating cost
• •Postponement of projects including all exploration wells

Financials

Birte Norheim, CFO

Oil and gas production, sales and revenues

Solid production, but revenue decrease due to lower sold volumes and lower realised prices

Income statement

		1st quarter	Full year
Figures in NOK million	2020	2019	2019
Total operating income	551	764	3 020
Production expenses	-167	-144	-709
Changes in over/underlift positions and inventory	-33	-165	-272
Depreciation	-182	-180	-704
Impairment	-634	-54	-105
Exploration and operating expenses	-38	-43	-402
Profit / loss (-) from operating activities	-503	179	827
Net financial items	-423	-37	-408
Profit / loss (-) before income tax	-926	142	419
Income taxes	142	-151	-491
Net profit / loss (-)	-785	-9	-71
EBITDA	312	413	1 636

Q1 Comments
• Income: • Reduced volumes sold from Gjøa and Draugen • Lower oil and gas prices compared to Q1 '19
• Production expenses: • NOK/boe of 87.3
• Impairments: • Driven by market conditions
• Exploration expenses: • Field evaluation activities on Hasselmus, Storskrymten and Grevling
• Financials: • Weakened NOK during the quarter resulted in significant unrealised FX-losses on USD nominated bond loans; partly offset by USD nominated bank accounts
• Taxes: • Effective tax rate of 15%

• Deviation from 78% due to impairment, financial items and uplift

Impairment

Stressed macro conditions

Impairment indicators Q1

•Significant drop in oil and gas prices

Methodology applied

• •Forward curve per 31 March applied for NPV calculations until 2022
• •Bottom-up calculation per asset
• •Mainly intangible asset (technical and ordinary goodwill) subject to impairment

Cash development Q1 2020

Managing the business during the market turmoil

OKEA in a good position to handle the downturn

• •Solid cash balance; no maturities until 2023
• •Production expense 87.3 NOK/boe (~8.3 USD/boe1)
• •100 000 bbl² of May lifting from Draugen hedged at 57 USD/bbl
• •Preserve cash and cut cost

Risk of temporary breach of bond covenants

• •Financial forecasts impacted by market turmoil
• •Risk of breach of bond covenants during 2020; intention to approach bondholders to seek a waiver
• •Engaged DNB Markets as financial advisor in the waiver process

Cash and covenants forecast

• Solid cash position and long-term cash generation
• Risk of temporary breach of leverage ratio covenant during 2020
• Yme start-up impacting low-point of cash and leverage ratio

Operations

Tor Bjerkestrand, SVP Operations

Production volumes Q1

High production from both Draugen and Gjøa

•High availability •Production optimisation

Draugen operations – OKEA operated

Safe operations and stable production despite Covid-19

Production availability

Q1 operations

• No serious incidents or leaks
• 97% availability and production optimisation
• Covid-19 situation managed
• Reduced activity level and low manning offshore
• Q1 actions to reduce OPEX/CAPEX

Next steps

• Keep safety performance
• Keep high availability
• D2 well intervention
• OKEA lifting in May
• Manage Covid-19 situation
• Maintenance turnaround

Gjøa operations – OKEA non-operated asset

High availability and production ahead of plan

Production availability

Q1 operations

• One incident dropped object on drilling rig
• No leaks
• 97% availability and production above target
• Covid-19 situation managed
• Cost actions OPEX/CAPEX

Next steps

• Ensure safety performance
• Keep high availability
• Manage Covid-19 situation

Development Projects

Knut Gjertsen, SVP Projects and Technology

Yme

Planned production start is year-end 2020, effects of Covid-19 still uncertain

Status

• •Offshore campaign for wellhead module is successfully completed, and Rowan Viking is demobilised. Well head scope reduced to 5 000 hours.
• •Offshore campaign for replacement of well plugs for two gas injector wells completed.
• •Progress on modification of Maersk Inspirer has been lower than planned. Restrictions due to Corona situation has further reduced yard progress.

Mitigation measures implemented

• •Yard manning up with Norwegian workers demobilised from other operations
• •Yard actively sourcing foreign workers within the Covid-19 regulations

Outlook

• •Planned production start is year-end 2020, effects of Covid-19 on timeline still uncertain
• •At plateau approx. 7 500 boepd net to OKEA, reserves unchanged

Development Projects

Outlook & concluding remarks

Outlook

• •Manage operations through the downturn
• Postpone all investments that do not support short term cashflow
• •Push forward maintenance turnaround on Draugen
• •Protecting financial position
  • •Control spend in own operated assets
  • •Waiver process towards bond holders
• •Guiding 2020
  • •Production: 14 000 –15 000 boepd¹
• •Capex: NOK 900 1 000 million²
• •M&A opportunities
• •OKEA, one of few NCS oil companies with production operating capabilities

1) Assuming start-up of Yme year-end 2020, turnaround at Draugen, shut-down due to tie-ins at Gjøa 2) Increase on Gjøa P1 and Yme delay, partly offset by reductions on new projects